What will your masterpiece look like?

Art and Soul reminded me of this story …

Leonardo da Vinci had started work on a large canvas in his studio. For a while he worked at it – choosing the subject, planning perspective, sketching the outline, applying the colours, with his own inimitable genius. Then suddenly he ceased, the painting still unfinished, and, summoning one of his students, invited him to complete the work. The student protested that he was both unworthy and unable to complete the great painting which his master had begun. But da Vinci silenced him. “Will not what I have done inspire you to do your best?”

Our Master began two thousand years ago – by what he said, by what he did, what he suffered and supremely by the way he loved. He illustrated his message and left us to finish the picture on the canvas of our days.

Peter Morphew
Chaplain